Chairman of League One club says West Ham being sole tenants of Olympic
Stadium in Stratford will kill his club

Barry Hearn will seek an “urgent meeting” to discuss Leyton Orient sharing the Olympic Stadium with West Ham United after a parliamentary select committee decreed they should be allowed to do so.

A House of Lords report entitled Keeping the flame alive: the Olympic and Paralympic legacy on Monday recommended that the London Legacy Development Corporation to “think further” about how the two clubs might co-exist at the £400 million arena.

The LLDC manages the Olympic Stadium and decided not to allow Orient to groundshare with near neighbours West Ham, a verdict Hearn claims will “kill” his club.

Having been thwarted at every turn in his bid to force a judicial review into the LLDC’s decision, Hearn was understandably encouraged by the House of Lords recommendation.

“We welcome the report and its comments and accept them,” he told Telegraph Sport.